Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since pro football has no world series, there was no decisive way of proving which league had the champingest champ. But most fans agreed that Brown's Browns, who have been champions ever since the All-America Conference was started, were the tops in pro football...
Psychotic Calculators. If calculators are like human brains, do they ever go insane? Indeed they do, says Professor Wiener. Certain forms of insanity in the brain are believed to be caused by circulating memories which have got out of hand. Memory impulses (of worry or fear) go round & round, refusing to be suppressed. They invade other neuron circuits and eventually occupy so much nerve tissue that the brain, absorbed in its worry, can think of nothing else...
...took seven years for Lend an Ear to get to Broadway. It took Author Charles Gaynor 19. Ever since Dartmouth he had wanted to write big-time musicals. While he was sparring for an opening, he did such odd jobs as playing the piano at weddings and writing college songs for a Fred Waring radio program. Having now performed the rare feat of writing the music, lyrics and sketches for a hit revue (almost always a collaborators' patchwork), he is planning a musical comedy...
...stepped on a German land mine (a type called the fougasse), and was all but killed. He was bedridden for four years with a broken back; and started to draw. A correspondence-school art teacher sent one of his drawings to Punch, which has been gobbling his work ever since...
...copies a week, higher than prewar but a shade under the 1947 record of 184,000. Any change Bird makes will be gradual; he doesn't want to lose an old reader to gain a new one. He brushes off inquiries about his plans: "Nothing is ever planned on Punch'' he chuckles. "It just happens...